Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

Cleanthes · From EPICTETUS, Enchiridion, sec. 53

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If you would be loved, love.

Seneca · Seneca passes on, as a love potion "compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation", a saying of the Stoic teacher Hecato; the Latin is "si vis amari, ama".

Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), V, i This thing of darkness I

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Marcus Aurelius · From the seventh book of his notes to himself.

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“Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.”

“If you would be loved, love.”

“Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.”

“It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.”

We Value Your Opinion Comments

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

If you would be loved, love.

Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.